Maryland Could Have Reduced Risk of Key Bridge Collapse: NTSB March 21, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is harshly criticizing Maryland officials for failing to conduct a risk assessment of the...
Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Team Assessing Likelihood of Another Tragic Bridge Disaster May 31, 2024 By Lea Skene Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are assessing the country’s bridges to determine the likelihood of another disaster like...
Coast Guard Studying if Other Bridges at Risk After Baltimore Collapse May 20, 2024 By David Shepardson The U.S. Coast Guard said it is evaluating whether other bridges nationwide are at risk after a cargo ship crashed...
Construction Workers Had Little Warning as Baltimore Bridge Collapsed. Why? April 5, 2024 By Claudia Lauer and JAKE OFFENHARTZ In the moments before the cargo ship Dali rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge and sent it crumbling into...
Could Modern Protections Have Saved Baltimore Bridge? Debate Is Underway. April 4, 2024 By Ben Finley When a 900-foot container ship struck the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, the span stood firm and no one...
A Bridge Too Small: Historic Covered Bridges Threatened by Trucks With GPS for Cars March 22, 2024 By Lisa Rathke One of Vermont’s historic covered bridges has fallen under threat from modern technology. Box truck drivers relying on GPS continually...
Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge Cleared as Safe After Being Hit by Crane May 23, 2023 ST. IGNACE, Mich. (AP) – A crane being towed on a barge hit the main span of the Mackinac Bridge,...
Report: 2014 North Carolina Bridge Collapse Caused by Design Flaw May 18, 2015 Design flaws on supporting girders of a pedestrian bridge under construction at Wake Technical Community College led to a collapse...
AP Report Claims More Than 100 Kentucky Bridges At Risk September 17, 2013 By Lucas L. Johnson II More than 100 Kentucky bridges have advanced deterioration and are at risk of collapsing, federal records show, and the head...
Officials Defend Safety of West Virginia Bridges After AP Report September 17, 2013 By John Raby State highway officials say West Virginia’s bridges are safe despite dozens that are both in disrepair and at risk of...